Show REVOLT OF THE ARMY NO gigantic conspiracy to seize three great sea fortresses uncovered soldiers at sveaborg svenborg Svea borg revolt on ac count of M ment of a corn com rade only four compan es so of the infantry remaining loyal bloody conflict follows Helsing fors A gigantic ralli military taryl conspiracy aiming at the simultaneously capture of russia s three great sea fortresses Cron sebastopol ands Svea svenborg borg arranged by the revolution ary mil tary league was prematurely sprung here tuesday night by an at ati i tempt to arrest members of a corn com pany of sappers who had mutinied on account of the death of one of their comrades com rades alleged to have been due du a to ill III treatment the entire garrison of the fortress at sveaborg svenborg Svea borg flamed out instantly in revolt all the artillery men and sap pers pars garrisoning the place were in evolved only four companies of in fantry men remained loyal the mu tinkers seized forty machine gun guns and practically all the quick floers and light artillery in the fortress but even with this aid they were unable to hold the main fort against the loyal try the fighting continued all night long wednesday morning a detachment of civilian revolutionaries entered the marine barracks on island hoisted the red flag and were joined by all the marines nine cruisers tor tori boats and destroyers lying in th the harbor opened fire on the barrack barracks this fire was answered from the third story windows of the barracks barra olig with machine guns and rifles the torpedo boats and destroyers which were lying closer to the shore were subjected to such a hot fire from the barracks that their crews were driven below deck docks they finally steamed out and jol joined ned in the bombardment with the cruisers this sea attack was in operation cooperation co with attacks by cossacks cossa and infantry from the land side which t T 0 clock in the T WOW r ga 10 S 7 ag and continued ahr ou p thole c th whole day finally toward 1 ard the evening the firing ceased and the authorities 1 11 announced that the bar r racks a kh had been captured ario various rumors are heard regarding the fate of the officers who were at sveaborg svenborg Svea borg and inthe in the unda bar racks according to one rumor al most all the officers of and according to another almost all the junior officers sided with the mutineers the ma rines at are said to have convened an elective court martial which condemned several officers to instant execution the red guard who were cognize ant of the plot dispatched an expedit tion by a special train as soon as the revolt broke out to cut the railroad track outside of the city in order to prevent the arrival of reinforcements A general strike was declared wed afternoon and was obeyed by the workmen of all the factories |